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Escape to Manchuria!

Escape to Manchuria!

Escape to Manchuria!

Gillian Thornhill

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New Generation Publishing Ltd
Año de edición:
2016
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Historia
ISBN:
9781787190559
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In 1939, to escape Nazi persecution and genocide, Margarethe (now Margalit) and her family flee Germany to travel halfway round the world, firstly to Shanghai, where stateless people were admitted without visa or passport, and then on to Manchuria.

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